Brooklyn’s Photogenic Dead

You enter Green-wood through these Gothic arches, designed by Richard M. Upjohn.

Green-wood’s chapel.

Much of the cemetery still recalls Brooklyn’s rural past.

Leaves collect around monuments in the fall.

The pervasive fear of being buried alive was one of the factors that led to building catacombs in the cemetery.

Ward McAllister would have preferred a private mausoleum, but he could afford a spot in the catacombs.

These mausoleums were built into the hillside.

A statue inside tobacconist John Anderson’s mausoleum.

Jean-Michele Basquiat’s final resting place.

Green-wood’s hills were formed by a glacier during the last ice age.

This stone angel has an eternal view of Manhattan.

Residents of Green-Wood Cemetery–a few of whom we profiled here–have eternal access to one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful, if somewhat macabre, green spaces. Here are some shots of their enviable resting place. If you want more photos, check out Allison Meier’s Green-Wood set on Flickr.